Robert Valentin will test skills with Ateba Gautier at UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 on July 19th.
Valentin appeared on Bowks Talking Bouts to touch on multiple topics like: -fighting someone here that people call the middleweight Francis Ngannou, and how much juice he feels like he can get out of achieving his idealistic outcome here
-his efforts cross-training at Bangtao Muay Thai and Syndicate MMA (while out in Las Vegas) in recent times
-big names that are listed from Syndicate MMA like Merab Dvalishvili and Khalil Rountree Jr.
-working with Shara Bullet in Thailand relatively recently
-thoughts on the Poirier vs. Holloway trilogy bout for the BMF title that headlines this card he's on as the former embarks on his swan song octagon outing
-how much this moment means for him, considering past comments where he said he would die for big UFC opportunities like this
-being an active middleweight fighter in the context of his thoughts on Dricus du Plessis defending his 185-pound title against Khamzat Chimaev in the UFC 319 headliner
-being on Team Grasso when he was on The Ultimate Fighter, Zhang Weili also working out of Bangtao, and if we end up seeing the Zhang Weili vs. Valentina Shevchenko super fight next
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